Of course not. Invention is the mother of necessity. The same is true with email, SMS text messaging, even the Web connection. I shudder to even think of being cut off from the Web for an hour, let alone a day or longer. Perish the thought.
Residency Pay. Medical residents are paid, according to the University of Alabama. As of 2011, residents with the University of Alabama earn between $45,443 and $54,915 a year, or between $3,786.92 and $4,576.25 a month. Pay depends on where the student is completing his residency training. Residents with the University of California, for instance, earn $48,259 in their first year.
Salary during residency will be $40,000, the same as an average college graduate. Residency will last for 3 years, the minimal amount of time to complete residency in family medicine. Salary after residency, as an attending, will be $150,000 per year. That is a fair amount for a family medicine doctor. You can argue that more than half of the people specialize and make more than $150,000.